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Charles Besjak is the Director in charge of Structural Engineering for SOM New York. For the past decade, he has focused on expanding the firm’s high quality structural engineering practice both domestically and abroad. Mr. Besjak is a licensed structural and professional engineer as well as a licensed architect and brings over 20 years of design and construction experience across a vast array of domestic and international projects.

Mr. Besjak’s unique combination of structural engineering insight and creative natural design abilities serves as a cohesive force that fosters an integrated design approach to SOM projects. His portfolio of over 60 structures includes some of SOM’s tallest building projects, including the 555-meter tall Lotte Super Tower in Seoul, South Korea and the 450-meter tall Nanjing Greeland Financial Center in Nanjing, China. Working in close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, he has also developed a wide range of innovative structural systems for laboratories, airports, hospitals, corporate office buildings, government buildings, and residential centers.

Mr. Besjak currently serves on the organizing committee for IABSE Congress on Creating and Renewing Urban Structures in Chicago, and lectures frequently on a wide range of topics, including state-of-the-art tall building design, high-rise design in seismic zones, cable-net structures, and unique composite structural systems for high-rise building design.